> aren't entitled to a lossless download of that song Why not? It wasn't a problem to copy and distribute non-commercially just in my lifetime. Surely society

> aren't entitled to a lossless download of that song Why not? It wasn't a problem to copy and distribute non-commercially just in my lifetime. Surely society as a whole was not robbed of one of its social and cultural rights to satisfy the greed of some special interests who want nothing more than to co-opt our own traditions and force us to pay rent on them? The US was built on "piracy" as a copyright-free zone against their then enemy, Great Britain. Ships carried copies of books that sometimes were reprinted and distributed before they were available at large to their own markets because of the efficiency of US enterprise. Russia declares the same, and we get laws drafted in under a week. Instead of more of these frivolous shakedowns and penny-wringers against the public, the laws we really need written should govern who inherits their senators when a billionaire dies.